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PINNED Enable inventory reservation automatic cron task for specific site
Advantage : Enable the cron for specific site which is necessary. Summary: In Maximo, we have more than 50 Active sites. When we try to enable inventory reservation automatic cron task for specific site, There is no Cron Parameters are available....

IBM MAS - Manage (Base)

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Vendor *name* native on Purchasing Application screen

Procurement users, supervisors, storekeepers and administrators' day-to-day activities involve frequent lookups of purchase orders and purchase requisitions. One of the routine tasks associated with this is checking the associated vendor name whic...
27 days ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Future consideration

Add ability to define list of jobs that a specific Async crontask is not allowed to run

Problem == Currently the async crontasks allow you to specify a list of jobs that they can run. If no jobs are specified for a particular crontask then that crontask can pick any job to run. It is unclear if jobs specified for one crontask can be ...
about 1 month ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Future consideration

PM WOGen Log

The log that is generated when the PMWoGenCronTask runs is unusable. We have clients with tens of thousands of PMs and the log mentions all PMs that are not due, worse it counts this as an error whereas it should be a warning at best. I would like...
12 days ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Future consideration

Let us return response code with Custom Script Handlers

Maximo supports api calls to a custom script handler as described https://ibm-maximo-dev.github.io/maximo-autoscript-documentation/rest/scripthandler While we can give custom response body, we cannot change the response code.Adding this will great...
4 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Integration 0 Future consideration

MAS Manage - Automatic Authentication to Cognos Analytics

Nowadays is required the user to connect first into Cognos Analytics application, keep the Cognos Analytics tab opened to run any Cognos report from any application. The idea is to Cognos works the same as Maximo 7.6.1.x where there is no need to ...
3 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Reporting 1 Future consideration

Enable customers to control the 2 digit year used in SimpleDateFormat

There are many date fields in Maximo, each of which go through a process to convert the string value into a date value using Java's SimpleDateFormat. This introduces sometimes undesirable behavior by the platform because the year field is a 2-digi...
3 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 0 Future consideration

To be able to make a code in a failure hierarchy Inactive.

There is no ability to modify the failure hierarchy after it has been used, you will receive the error BMXAA1159E - Failure list is referenced by a failure report and may not be deleted. There should be an option on a failure code that is part of ...
11 days ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Future consideration

Overhaul QUERY management in Maximo Manage

Hello, This idea will be useful to both Manage users and administrators alike and tries to address several current pain points around the QUERY functionality in Maximo Manage. There is a Community Post about a newly added behavior with MAS Manage ...
4 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Future consideration

Simplify investigation with JSON-based integration logging

At the time of this writing, July 28, 2024, we do not have a logger for JSON-based integration logging.As a result, we must completely rely on Integration logger.JSON based integration has gained popularity due to best practices and ease of design...
7 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Integration 4 Future consideration

User Impersonation

There are two scenarios we currently face where user impersonation could help greatly. Scenario 1: Maximo Administrator is trying to configure security for a new user. After the maxadmin finishes setting up the security, provide a "View Maximo as ...
5 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 4 Future consideration